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Google Photos Spooky Backgrounds Mask Years of Unsorted Jpeg Clutter

The claim: Google is rolling out seasonal features for Google Photos, encouraging users to leverage Ask Photos to locate past costumes and automatically apply spooky backgrounds to festive snaps.

The reality: You will spend twenty minutes scrolling past screenshots of receipts and photos of your lunch because natural language search still cannot distinguish a vampire from a winter coat on a Pixel 9.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
A recycled seasonal feature drop that relies entirely on an image search engine finding a needle in your digital haystack.

Read the original: Celebrate Halloween with these tricks in Google Photos.

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